Holy Cross Church, Port Talbot

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| other name = Chapel of Ease

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| country = Wales

| language(s) = English

| denomination = Church in Wales

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| functional status = Redundant

| heritage designation = Grade II listed

| designated date = 28 April 2000{{cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300023248-holy-cross-church-port-talbot|title=Holy Cross Church, Port Talbot|website=British Listed Buildings|access-date=5 October 2020}}

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| architect = Edward Haycock Sr.

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| years built = 1827

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| closed date = 2008

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| capacity = 500

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| parish = Margam

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Holy Cross Church, Port Talbot, also known locally as the "Chapel of Ease", is a Victorian church located centrally in the Taibach district of Port Talbot, Wales.{{cite book|author=Geoffrey R. Orrin|title=Church Building and Restoration in Victorian Glamorgan: An Architectural and Documentary Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uh_qAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=University of Wales Press|page=101}} Prior to the building of the M4 motorway flyover through the centre of the town in the 1960s, it was in the centre of a residential area, but it is now dominated by junction 40 of the motorway.{{Coflein|num=414438|desc=Holy Cross Church, Taibach|access-date=17 September 2020}} The land was originally donated by C. R. M. Talbot, MP, the owner of the Margam Abbey estate, as a church for local people who could not get to the abbey itself to worship.

The church was built in 1827 by the Shrewsbury architect Edward Haycock Sr., with William Bruce Knight as its first vicar,{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-KNIG-BRU-1785|title=The National Library of Wales, Knight, William Bruce (1785–1845), Welsh scholar, ecclesiastic, and administrator: Dictionary of Welsh Biography|accessdate=17 September 2020}} and fell within the parish of Margam, as a chapel of ease to Margam Abbey.{{cite book|author=Port Talbot Historical Society|title=Transactions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7poAAAAMAAJ|year=1965}} It had a capacity of 500.

After the building of St Theodore's Church, Port Talbot, Holy Cross became a subsidiary of the new parish of Taibach.{{cite web|url=http://www.st-theodore.org.uk/history/|title=History|website=The Parish of St Theodore, Port Talbot|access-date=18 September 2020}} In 1903 Holy Cross was upgraded, with G. E. Halliday as architect, to bring it up to the standard of a parish church, and a rood screen was added.

The parents of the actor Anthony Hopkins were married at the church in 1936.{{cite book|author=Michael Feeney Callan|title=Anthony Hopkins: In Darkness and Light|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTMcAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson|page=19}}